CDEI UPC

Industrial Equipment Design Centre

The CDEI is a technology innovation centre specialised in machine engineering with over 10 years of continuous experience. Its activities range from the conceptualisation, design, simulation and calculations required to produce new capital goods and products to the management of prototyping processes and testing. Specifically, the CDEI's areas of activity are:

Development of industrial, scientific and leisure equipment based on client specifications, including:

High-speed cameras facilitate the analysis and resolution of problems arising from the use of machinery in production. The many advantages they offer stem from the fact that they allow users to bypass slow and costly trial-and-error processes. The system offers: • Video function and subsequent processing of images. Exhaustive data analysis. • Mechanical failure detection in high-speed mechanisms. • Analysis in different areas of activity. • Detection of errors in production lines and vibrations in forming processes.

Expert reports

Due to malfunctions of industrial machinery for mechanical reasons. Patent comparisons.

Energy audit of the equipment for the operating process in which the machine is used. Assessment of the energy strategy for the product and process. Minimisation of the environmental impact of consumption and emissions over the full lifecycle. Design to streamline packaging and transport (DFMA). Application of renewable energies. Glocalisation: global versus local optimums.

In order to provide highly effective solutions for the sector's technology needs, the professionals at the CDEI have tailored their skills and services to the demands of today's global world. To this end, the CDEI's work method consists in studying the entire operating process, the geographical, environmental and cultural context, and energy consumption from the very start, when the machine's specifications are being defined.